For a long time now I've been reading magazine articles and a bunch of other crap about how interactive media or (video games) influence a persons behavior.

For instance a man mayplay a video game which hashis charactergo through a scenario where he brutally murders a family in their home (this is just a fictional example).So the next day he decides to go and kill a random family in a similar fashion. First of all this man is obvoiusly a psychopath...he is unable to familiarize the differences between right and wrong, what is socially acceptable and what lines should never be crossed. It may be concluded that this video game influenced him to murder this family but then again the same could be said for any other media or interaction he has had in other aspects of life such as a physical conversation. The previous day a man could have mentioned told him about a murder which also could be concluded as an "influence". Someone influenced by a video game into performing such an action is unstable mentally and could easily be influenced by any simple opinion or song or video game deeming them a bad example when making conclusions,especially negative ones, about an industry or medium as a whole.

Thisis why Ibelieve that every case in which a person said that they had been influenced by a video game, or any other media for that matter be it a book or whatever else, was either telling a bunch of bull or was so mentally unstable that they could not handle, like I said earlier, even a simplebook without it spurring some type insane interior reality. Thiswas dedicatedto all the retards ohh im sorry "experts" that use these extreme cases, such as the Columbine in which Doom was blamed for "negative influence", to define the greatest industry ever to exist in humanity's existence (and by greatest I mean theone that brings politics, entertainment, and every other aspect of life together).

are really long video games like final fantasy a better value than games like the short classicshadow of the colossus just by their price to playtime ratio? Hell no, because the game is long and drawn out does mean its better because half of the time I wont even finish thos amazingly long epics about good vs. evil unless the story is just that good. A final fantasy style gameis good every once in a while but i for one need an ICO tobreak things up every once in a while because those short ones that deliver their messages in such a short time and still remain powerful are the true masterpieces